FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation

(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Sandia researchers identified that the form of bacillus anthracis mailed in the fall of 2001 to several news media offices and to two US senators was a non-weaponized form of the spores.

Five people were killed. Sandia's information was crucial in ruling out state-sponsored terrorism.


 

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